TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro is at the Florida GOP’s “P5” straw poll event. He notes that potboiler jokes there about Obama and teleprompters have reached a whole new level of meta-awesomeness.
Gov. Walker’s (R-WI) spokesman given immunity in on-going secret investigation.
As some of you have noticed we’re in the midst of rolling out a redesigned TPM website. We first launched our new TPM2012 in the redesigned format and just this afternoon we welcomed TPM IdeaLab into the new format. You’ll see a lot more of it in the coming weeks and we’ll let you see the new front page in beta, as an option, before we make the switch permanent. But for those of you who are regular readers of the site, I wanted to give you some background on how the redesign came about and some of the priorities that guided us in putting together the design. In other words, what we were trying to achieve with the design and where we’re taking the site. Read more here. And we’re eager to get your feedback.
The DOJ believes that the congressional and state House redistricting maps signed into law by Rick Perry were designed with the intention of discriminating against minorities. In other words, it doesn’t just have that effect. That was the idea.
We know no one can really read your mind. But a team of Berkeley researchers, using imaging technology to decode brainwaves, are starting to get close to being able to ‘see’ the visual imagery in your brain. Take a look at this.
Remember that company ‘Blockbuster’ from back when people watched movies on videotapes? They just launched a streaming video service to compete with Netflix.
Rick Perry: GOP doesn’t need “the smoothest debater.”
A new study concludes that Twitter really did play a “central role” in the Arab Spring protests.